Citizenfour awarded Oscar for Best Documentary
Film director Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour has been recognized as past year’s Best Documentary Feature by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most of …
Lack of trust is affecting how consumers use the Internet
68% of US smartphone users are concerned about having their activity tracked to serve them targeted ads, suggesting that most smartphone users are uncomfortable with the idea …
Gemalto announces investigation of massive SIM heist
Yesterday’s report by The Intercept hit the information security community like a ton of bricks, as a set of documents from Edward Snowden’s trove indicate that …
AT&T: Pay more if you don’t want to share data for personalized ads
If you are a customer of AT&T’s GigaPower fiber-optic Internet access service and you don’t want to see personalized ads based on your browsing history, …
New Android Trojan fakes device shut down, spies on users
A new Android Trojan that tricks users into believing they have shut their device down while it continues working, and is able to silently make calls, send messages, take …
Lenovo computers come with pre-installed adware and MITM proxy
If you have recently bought a new Lenovo computer, you’re in for a nasty surprise: the company has been shipping them with pre-installed adware. And, what’s even …
Declaring personal data bankruptcy and the cost of privacy
In the digital economy, your data profile has value, but judging from what I watched happen recently in a London shopping mall, a lot of us give it away for free. At the …
Arabic cyber espionage group attacking high profile victims
Kaspersky Lab discovered Desert Falcons, a cyber-espionage group targeting high profile organizations and individuals from Middle Eastern countries. The list of targeted …
1 billion data records compromised in data breaches
More than 1,500 data breaches led to one billion data records compromised worldwide during 2014, according to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index (BLI). These numbers represent …
Jeb Bush dumps emails full of private data online
Jeb Bush, who might end up being a candidate in the next 2016 US presidential election, has made a clumsy misstep in his attempt to provide “transparency” into his …
Majority of dating apps are open to hacks
IBM Security found that over 60% of leading Android dating mobile apps they studied are potentially vulnerable to a variety of cyber-attacks that put personal user information …
How public Wi-Fi puts unprotected users at risk
76% of American smartphone and tablet users are at risk of privacy loss and identity theft via public Wi-Fi networks. The risk of using public Wi-Fi without a protected …